Is it OK to install a light fixture without a ground wire?
Yes, if you have a metal light fixture your fixture needs to be grounded. The ground wire exits your junction box, but it is not attached to your junction box.
Do I have to attach the ground wire?
Grounding refers to the wire that runs from an outlet into the earth, inherently protecting homeowners from coming in contact with electric energy. No matter the method, it’s important that the ground circuit provides an unbroken path to the earth. Ground wires must be firmly connected at all points.
Do you need a green ground wire for light fixture?
Check for Ground
Your new light fixture will have a ground wire (green coated or bare copper). But if you have an older metal box, there may not be a ground wire inside the box to connect to.
How do you ground a light fixture that does not have a ground wire?
A plastic box with no ground
You’re just as well off leaving the wire unconnected as you are trying to ground to plastic. You can wrap the wire around one of the screws that holds the fixture on, but the only purpose it serves is to help hold the fixture up while you wire the black hot and white common wires.
What to do if there is no ground wire for a light fixture?
If by chance you are installing an electrical light fixture that has no ground wire into an electrical box with no ground wire as well, then simply connect together the hot wire from the electrical box to the hot (black or red) wire on the light fixture.
Where does the ground wire go on a light fixture?
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Quote from Youtube video: When you're connecting up a new light fixture. You'll have one piece of romex coming into your electrical box from your switch.
Do LED light fixtures need to be grounded?
Now, any fixture that uses LEDs, or a bulb that uses LEDs to replace an incandescent bulb, must be grounded, similarly to the incandescent-bulb-using fixture. If not grounded, these fixtures use 110/120 volts AC power and might cause injury.
